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Supported Architecture

This release supports the ARM v5 architecture, little-endian, gnueabi, with thumb interworking (armv5tel). It will work on higher architecture versions but is not fully optimized for them. Popular supported devices include:

Kernel

The Fedora ARM project does not currently provide a kernel. You will need to provide a kernel suitable for your device (either the one provided with the device, or one compiled for your device). Here are kernels suitable for some common ARM development devices:

Included Packages

A comparision of the packages included in this beta release with the versions included in the primary 32-bit architecture (i686)

Notable package sets not included or incomplete in the beta include OpenOffice.org, gstreamer, and KDE.

Some languages (Ocaml, Haskell) do not yet suport ARM (in the versions used in F13). Therefore, any packages written in these languages are not yet available.

Work is continuing on the remaining packages.

Using the Beta Release

The beta release is a tarball of a minimal root filesystem. When coupled with a suitable kernel, it provides sufficient tools for login, network setup (wired or wireless), and software installation/removal via yum.